Former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney slammed House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) — stating she has “no faith” Johnson will “fulfill his constitutional obligations” as they pertain to certifying the 2024 election.
In an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, moderator Kristen Welker — who had just interviewed Johnson moments earlier — brought in Cheney and asked her to weigh in.
“You just heard how the House Speaker answered my questions about whether he would certify the election results,” Welker said. “Do you have faith that this election will be free and fair and that there will be a peaceful transfer of power?”
Cheney proceeded to voice a complete lack of confidence that Johnson would certify the election if former President Donald Trump lost.
“I do not have faith that Mike Johnson will fulfill his constitutional obligations,” Cheney said. “And if you just look at what he did in 2020, he knew, and he knew with specificity, that the claims of fraud Donald Trump was making and that he was repeating, he knew those to be false. We had very clear and specific conversations about that. He knew that courts had specifically found that those claims were false. He knew they weren’t true. He also knew that what he was urging Congress do, in terms of throwing out the votes of millions of Americans, he knew with specificity that that was unconstitutional. He was told that, not only in discussions with me, but also by the House Republican counsel. He signed his name to a brief filed with the United States Supreme Court that made those claims he knew to be false.
“So he has a record, repeatedly, of doing things that he knows to be wrong, he knows to be unconstitutional, in order to placate Donald Trump. And frankly, you know, you saw that sycophancy just now on display. So, I think that it is – it’s very concerning. I do think that Donald Trump has consistently said, again and again and again, you know, in the last few months, that this election, you know, is going to be rigged, and that if he loses, that’s why. So I think it’s very important that the Republicans not be in the majority in the House come January 2025.”
Welker followed-up by asking Cheney whether she believes there will be a peaceful transfer of power.
“When it comes to the possibility of a peaceful transfer of power, are you optimistic that there will be?” Welker asked.
“I think that Donald Trump is not currently in the White House,” Cheney replied. “So he does not have the ability to exercise the controls he did in 2020 and 2021. I hear repeated from people like Mike Johnson, like JD Vance, this claim that somehow we had a peaceful transfer of power.
“Donald Trump sat and watched for over three hours while our Capitol was brutally attacked by a mob that he sent there while police officers were brutally beaten. And Donald Trump refused to tell them to go home for over three hours. So anybody who is interested in the truth ought to go look at those videos. We did not have a peaceful transfer of power in 2021.”
Johnson, in the prior interview, was asked if he would certify the election regardless of who won. The speaker qualified his response.
“Yes, if the election is free and fair and legal,” Johnson said.
He also, on CBS’ Face the Nation Sunday, said he believes there will be cheating in the 2024 election.
“I think there is going to be some cheating in this election,” Johnson said. “I think non-citizens are going to vote.”
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